Funds for Expert Knowledge Encoder AfterQuery

San Francisco-based AfterQuery has completed a $30 million Series A fundraising round, valuing it at $300 million. The firm taps a network of nearly 100,000 experts from a range of professions, encoding their knowledge into a dataset for use by its customers, which include all the major AI labs.

The funds will be used to expand the network, build out its enterprise solutions business, and recruit staff for operations, engineering, research and other functions.

AfterQuery was founded in January 2025 by Spencer Mateega and Carlos Georgescu, and works with subject matter experts in sectors including finance, software engineering, medicine and law, to translate human intuition and institutional knowledge into encoded patterns and reasoning that can be used to scale expertise in a variety of professional sectors. It also partners with enterprises to evaluate and solve complex AI tool implementation challenges, using customized research and data creation.

'We are excited to have the support of both new and existing investors as we make expertise that once took a lifetime to build available to anyone,' says CEO Mateega. 'For most of human history, expertise has been scarce, constrained by the time and reach of an individual. Until now. This influx of capital will allow us to further support our customers by encoding the reasoning of the world's best professionals into models to carry that knowledge further than any individual ever could.'

The round was led by Altos Ventures, with participation from The Raine Group alongside existing investors Y Combinator and BoxGroup. Altos' Zac Mohring will join AfterQuery's Board of Directors.

Web site: www.afterquery.com .

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